The GOP candidate told a crowd in Cincinnati, Ohio Wednesday night: "All of a sudden, it turned out to be — in the minds of the press only, because it could've been a sheriff star or a regular star — my boy comes home from school, Barron, he draws stars all over the place, I never said 'Oh that's a Star of David, Barron'.”

At the rally, the presumptive Republican nominee was defiant, insisting that last weekend's now infamous anti-Hillary Clinton tweet — with the six pointed star against a background of hundred dollar bills was not anti-Semitic.

The star was later changed by a campaign worker to a circle and Trump says that was a mistake.